About Me

Staten Island, New York, United States
I've worked in the FDNY for the past 29 years. I've written freelance commentary for the past twenty years and have one book published "Looking Up (A Working View)," Quiet Storm Publishers. For those of you with whom my ideas resonate, we probably share a common love of Liberty. If you like anything you read here, feel free to reuse...just please add my appellation. Life's been more than fair to me and this is a part of my humble offering back. If you have any corrections, or additions, please email me (my email address is in my profile) and I’ll both appreciate and consider them all and do my best to get back to you with my thoughts on it. My ideas are always evolving and I’m open to persuasion in all areas. I thank all those who've taken some of their time to read here.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

The NFL has opened the 2014 Season with a firestorm.
Unfortunately for the NFL that firestorm hasn’t been around its games as much
as around the conduct of some of its players.

The scandal started with the now infamous Ray Rice
video and the NFL’s paltry two game suspension for Rice.

In Roger Goodell’s defense, the NFL Commissioner was
simply following the SAME tack taken by law enforcement which DID NOT pursue
criminal penalties in the case.

Rice was initially charged with assault by the
Atlantic City police in the early hours of February 15th. But on
March 27th, an Atlantic City grand jury, presumably after watching
all the Revel casino security camera videos, increased the charge to aggravated
assault-bodily injury in the third degree and one count of simple assault. If
convicted, Rice faced a penalty of three to five years in prison.

Rice's defense attorney, Michael J. Diamondstein of
Philadelphia, then applied for pretrial intervention (PTI), a remedy that
allows defendants to avoid conviction if they complete a court-ordered set of
requirements. Apparently Goodell took
that and Janay Rice’s testimony supporting her husband into account in
rendering the 2 game suspension.

What I’ve taken
from this ongoing scandal is two things; (1)
there seems to be quite an appetite for a return to chivalry (protecting women)
and (2) the media seems to either be
belatedly waking up to widespread black dysfunction, OR (perhaps more likely)
loves attacking blacks, so long as they are also “rich.” To date, ALL of those
ground up in these domestic & now child abuse scandals are black.

I’m somewhat more interested in the former, that
apparent return to chivalry, as it seems so incongruous coming, as it does,
from those who also strongly support “women in combat,” and “more females in
firefighting,” etc. There appears to be a disconnect there.

YES, women tend to be smaller, with far less upper
body strength than men, so it would seem they NEED some societal protections,
HOWEVER, if we acknowledge that a woman cannot fight a man and win (she CANNOT),
then she also SHOULDN’T EVER be allowed in military combat, or in firefighting
either...if you can’t fight a man, you almost certainly can’t fight a fire
effectively either.

Nature is what it is and we are left to abide by
that. We CANNOT and would not want to change the size and strength disparity
between males and females, as it is so much a part of the physical attraction
that leads to the very propagation of our species, so we set about protecting
those who need protecting. Such sentiments tend to go away with women in combat
positions, asserting that they can “fight as effectively as any man.”

I blame a LOT of this on that circus clown Bobby
Riggs, who while making sport of Billie Jean King’s call for “gender equality
in tennis,” also kindled a nefarious fiction that has only grown, despite ALL
evidence to the contrary through to today.

In the 1980s male tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis
garnered outrage by claiming, “The #1
female tennis player couldn’t beat the a male tennis player in the top 100.”

That “outrage” was itself ignorance. EVERY sport is
divided between male and female because no woman in any sport can compete with
any high performing male player. That’s why female tennis matches are a best two
out of three, while men’s are a best three of five and why female golfers tee
off closer to the greens and off of higher “lady tees.”

WHY is it inconvenient to acknowledge such a basic
truth?

Recently female fighter Rhonda Rousey claimed she
thought she could beat male boxer Floyd Mayweather in a MMA event. Good
publicity, wrong-headed in every other conceivable way. IF such a fight were
sanctioned and ended as it invariably would, the SAME champions of Rousey’s
calling for such a fight would then deride it as “criminally sanctioned abuse.”

I admit that I am very unfamiliar with MMA fighting
and equally unfamiliar with and disinterested in female boxing, BUT my view has
always been, “WHY watch female boxing, except for the tits and ass? I am pretty
certain that a male high school aged Golden Gloves boxer would beat ANY
professional female in the ring.

What do I base that on?

Well, in 1971 I ran a 1:54.2 half mile (slightly
more than 800 meters). In the 1976 Summer Olympics Tatyana Kazankina of the
then Soviet Union set a women’s World Record in the 800 meters of 1:54.94. In
short I beat the women’s world record holder in the Olympics held FIVE years
later, when I was in high school.

And my school had 21 guys under 2 minutes in the
half mile back then and I was NOT close to the best of us.

If “men and women are not so different,” males and
females certainly ARE!

All this chivalry is good, so long as even greater
common sense comes out of this. Let’s unceremoniously end any more calls for
women in combat and let’s take a much more skeptical look at women in
firefighting, commercial fishing, mining and other such “death professions.”